After a year-long hiatus, the release of version 1.96 of the console utility has occurred. Gifsicle, designed for creating and editing images and animations in the GIFformat, as well as for retrieving information about files in this format. The package also includes the utilities gifdiff and gifview (for X11) for comparing and viewing GIF files, respectively.
The utility is written in C and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license.
Change log:
- With the -lossy option, the current selected color space (set by -gamma, default is sRGB) is now used for measuring color errors and a different algorithm is employed for calculating color differences. As a result, the -lossy=N option in version 1.96 behaves differently than in previous versions. Depending on the value of N, the compression might be worse than expected. The closest analogue to previous versions will be achieved using -lossy=N -gamma=1.
- Improved handling of GIF files with images positioned far beyond the logical screen. This can significantly reduce memory consumption.
- Preliminary support for the color space Oklab (-gamma=oklab) has been added.
- A dithering algorithm atkinson (-dither=atkinson) has been added.
- An option -use-exact-colormap has been added.
- Bugs have been fixed.
Source: linux.org.ru
